Documentation/mm: add details about kmap_local_page() and preemption
authorFabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:48:44 +0000 (17:48 +0200)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 9 Aug 2022 01:06:46 +0000 (18:06 -0700)
commita9e9c93966afdaae74a6a7533552391646b93f2c
tree393c1b289b1c3dd236dd973553846a88fe650d48
parent72f1c55adf70fd08ceac6b67455238db2014894a
Documentation/mm: add details about kmap_local_page() and preemption

What happens if a thread is preempted after mapping pages with
kmap_local_page() was questioned recently.[1]

Commit f3ba3c710ac5 ("mm/highmem: Provide kmap_local*") from Thomas
Gleixner explains clearly that on context switch, the maps of an outgoing
task are removed and the map of the incoming task are restored and that
kmap_local_page() can be invoked from both preemptible and atomic
contexts.[2]

Therefore, for the purpose to make it clearer that users can call
kmap_local_page() from contexts that allow preemption, rework a couple of
sentences and add further information in highmem.rst.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5303077.Sb9uPGUboI@opensuse/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20201118204007.468533059@linutronix.de/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220728154844.10874-8-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/mm/highmem.rst